The fired individual was a book salesman for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt who was caught on tape bragging “I hate kids” and “I’m in it to sell book.” From the Daily Mail:

EXCLUSIVE: Textbook sales leader says national Common Core education standards are ‘all about the money’ as teacher insists bureaucrats created a ‘new f**king system that f**king sucks to sell more books’
*Conservative muckraker group Project Veritas caught a textbook sales executive and a New York teacher talking about Common Core standards
*’I hate kids,’ confessed the textbook sales leader. ‘I’m in it to sell books. Don’t even kid yourself for a heartbeat’
*Hidden camera video shows teacher hammering the program as a ‘bulls**t’ system designed ‘to sell more books’
*’Oh my god, it’s all a money game. It’s all a money game,’ she said
*Houghton Mifflin Harcourt fired the sales executive Tuesday morning after DailyMail.com told the company about the video

Video here:

BREAKING; Undercover in Common Core, top official reveals: “All about the money… I hate kids… in it to sell books” https://t.co/Q579d2Dt5y